Degree: Trump and Nominees

degree: But by another metric, Trump's nominees fall short academic degrees, according to Toronto Star. As a whole, Trump's picks to lead the nation's government agencies have fewer advanced degrees than any first-term cabinet in at least 24 years.A third of the nominees in Trump's 15-member executive team hold only a bachelor's degree. Saul Loeb / AP By Tracy Jan The Washington Post Fri., Jan. 20, 2017 As his cabinet nominees were grilled by the Senate on the eve of his inauguration, then-President-elect Donald Trump declared that We have by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled! It's a grandiose assertion, one that's impossible to know. A quarter obtained up to a master's degree, and 40 per cent achieved a law or medical degree. Compare that to President Obama's original cabinet, which conservatives derided for being stacked with intellectual elites Only two members held a bachelor's degree alone. No one has a doctorate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.